[vtkusers] bug 0009618 and UTF 8 text rendering fix question

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>wrote:

>
> Marcus,
>
> Just to clarify, what encoding should be given to vtkTextActor::SetInput
> ()?  Last I tried, it seemed to expect ISO-8859-1.  Certainly a step up
> from ASCII!  Is the long term plan for it to accept UTF8?
>

I think it is best if VTK strings use the system default encoding, rather
than utf-8.  For unicode there is always vtkUnicodeString.  More classes
should be adapted to take vtkUnicodeString as input (but only, of course,
if they are internally capable of using/rendering unicode).

But I'm flexible.  Really, I'm just pushing for VTK's string handling to be
more similar to Python's.  ;)

  David
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